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Did anyone else loathe school games?
By the time I got to grammar school, my resentment at being forced into biting cold weather in next to nothing (once I swear me boll ocks had disappeared in the cold, I was pretty alarmed!), being the last one picked by the soccer captain for the team, standing looking at the park while everyone else played, throwing the rugby ball at the nearest person so they wouldn’t come for me finally boiled over.
grrrrr!!
The PE master was a ramrod-straight-backed ex-army sergeant with a moustache who wore white cricket clothes and walked round with a perennial smile, swinging his long arms very purposively. Along with other skivers, I plumped for the weight-lifting exercises as they were rarely supervised – I never got beyond the lightest weight and made a point of strained grunting whenever the teacher appeared; back to schoolboy griping when he walked on.
I called javelins spears. The Master was so angry with this, and would jump up and down shouting, “javelins, not spears! javelins, not spears!”. I still remember the defeated look on his face as I shouted “Death to the White-Eyes!” and made an Indian war-whoop when I threw the spear – not at him, I add quickly, he was quite a nice bloke really.
But I so hated Games!
I loved Hockey and Netball…my sister who I have to admit is a fitness freak is 4 years older than me and she still plays netball! I remember the the communal showers we all had to take after playing hockey…. no soap and freezing cold water…. Oh Happy days :D
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I loved Hockey and Netball…my sister who I have to admit is a fitness freak is 4 years older than me and she still plays netball! I remember the the communal showers we all had to take after playing hockey…. no soap and freezing cold water…. Oh Happy days :D
Communal showers? :shock:
Eww!
I’m glad they’ve invented deodorant since then. :P
I hated swimming so I never went but anything else was fine. I particularly like tennis and badminton.
@panda12 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I loved Hockey and Netball…my sister who I have to admit is a fitness freak is 4 years older than me and she still plays netball! I remember the the communal showers we all had to take after playing hockey…. no soap and freezing cold water…. Oh Happy days :D
Communal showers? :shock:
Eww!
I’m glad they’ve invented deodorant since then. :P
Ey up….. We are made of tough stuff up north tha naws
An’ Ah’ll tell thi that fer nowt!!!!
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I loved Hockey and Netball…my sister who I have to admit is a fitness freak is 4 years older than me and she still plays netball! I remember the the communal showers we all had to take after playing hockey…. no soap and freezing cold water…. Oh Happy days :D
Communal showers? :shock:
Eww!
I’m glad they’ve invented deodorant since then. :P
Ey up….. We are made of tough stuff up north tha naws
An’ Ah’ll tell thi that fer nowt!!!!
A norferner does nowt for nowt, innit blud?
*runs
:P
@panda12 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
@panda12 wrote:
@mrs_teapot wrote:
I loved Hockey and Netball…my sister who I have to admit is a fitness freak is 4 years older than me and she still plays netball! I remember the the communal showers we all had to take after playing hockey…. no soap and freezing cold water…. Oh Happy days :D
Communal showers? :shock:
Eww!
I’m glad they’ve invented deodorant since then. :P
Ey up….. We are made of tough stuff up north tha naws
An’ Ah’ll tell thi that fer nowt!!!!
A norferner does nowt for nowt, innit blud?
*runs
:P
See all, ‘ear all, say nowt. Eat all, sup all,
pay nowt. An’ if th’ivver does owt for
nowt, allus do it for thissen :Di hated PE at senior school……….well, thats not strictly true………i loved it at my first senior school……it was a new school with new (and plenty of it) equipment ……i loved the hockney and netball…….really enjoyed the tennis in the spring and then in the summer it was athletics……really enjoying long jump, learning the frosby flip to high jump, 200m hurdles and having a go at javelin ………two years later my family moved as dad left the raf and that was the end of my love for PE……..the school’s equipment was either broken, well after it’s ‘use by’ date or just non-existent ……..when i think about it now, i would never have thought my love for PE could die within the space of a few months
“hockney” sounds like either a dance or a drink!! lol
Talking of ‘dance’ – I loved PE blah de blah, but dance (dramatic, not ballet)?! We all looked like a load of maggots gone wrong ffs – I am sure that it was the teacher getting us all in our blue t-shirts and grey nic-nocs! :shock: Yeah, must have been a sight! :lol:
@anc wrote:
“hockney” sounds like either a dance or a drink!! lol
Talking of ‘dance’ – I loved PE blah de blah, but dance (dramatic, not ballet)?! We all looked like a load of maggots gone wrong ffs – I am sure that it was the teacher getting us all in our blue t-shirts and grey nic-nocs! :shock: Yeah, must have been a sight! :lol:
Lol anc… reminds me of our dance lessons… we always started having to pretend we were seeds in the soil and had to slowly grow and reach up to the sun…..got a bit boring after a while… lots of girls in fits of giggles much to the teachers annoyance…DECORUM GIRLS!!!!
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